Physical controls on oxygen distribution and denitrification potential in the North West Arabian Sea

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Queste, Bastien Y., Vic, Clément, Heywood, Karen J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9859-0026 and Piontkovski, Sergey A. (2018) Physical controls on oxygen distribution and denitrification potential in the North West Arabian Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (9). pp. 4143-4152. ISSN 0094-8276

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Abstract

At suboxic oxygen concentrations, key biogeochemical cycles change and denitrification becomes the dominant remineralization pathway. Earth system models predict oxygen loss across most ocean basins in the next century; oxygen minimum zones near suboxia may become suboxic and therefore denitrifying. Using an ocean glider survey and historical data, we show oxygen loss in the Gulf of Oman (from 6–12 to <2 μmol/kg−1) not represented in climatologies. Because of the nonlinearity between denitrification and oxygen concentration, resolutions of current Earth system models are too coarse to accurately estimate denitrification. We develop a novel physical proxy for oxygen from the glider data and use a high‐resolution physical model to show eddy stirring of oxygen across the Gulf of Oman. We use the model to investigate spatial and seasonal differences in the ratio of oxic and suboxic water across the Gulf of Oman and waters exported to the wider Arabian Sea.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: deoxygenation,oman,glider,arabian sea,denitrifcation,eddies,sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 21 May 2018 12:30
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2023 11:32
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67143
DOI: 10.1029/2017GL076666

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